Greetings,
Tonight is round 2 of the May Swiss 90 event (G/90+30, 4SS, $10 entry) at the Colorado Springs Chess Club. Doors open around 6pm and games start around 7pm. See calendar for details:
cschess.webs.com/apps/calendar/
This week’s newsletter features at game from the May Swiss 90 and has the current standings:
cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … tra-credit
The USCF has posted the July Mating Game TLA:
uschess.org/tlas/upcoming.php?STATE=CO
This week’s position comes from the Mike Smith II and Joey Arispe game. It is black to mate.
See the diagram and answer here:
cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/pho … =205058797
Extra Credit
chessvideos.tv/chess-game-re … ?id=112632
[Event “May Swiss 90”]
[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]
[Date “2018.05.01”]
[Round “1.9”]
[White “Arispe, Joey”]
[Black “Smith, Mike”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “A47”]
[WhiteElo “1192”]
[BlackElo “1617”]
[PlyCount “84”]
[EventDate “2018.05.01”]
[TimeControl “5400+30”]
- d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 b6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Nbd2 Be7 5. h3
O-O 6. e3 Nd5 7. Bh2 f5 8. Bd3 Nb4 9. Be2 Bb7 10. a3 Nd5 11. c4 Nf6 12. b4 Ne4
- Nxe4 fxe4 14. Nd2 Bh4 15. O-O Qf6 16. Bg3 d6 17. Bg4 Bg5 18. Qc2 Qg6 19.
Qb3 h5 20. Bd1 Nd7 21. Bc2 Nf6 22. f3 Bxe3+ 23. Qxe3 Qxg3 24. Nxe4 Bxe4 25.
Bxe4 Rae8 26. Bc6 Re7 27. a4 Nh7 28. Bd5 Ng5 29. Kh1 c6 30. Bxc6 Nxh3 31. a5
Rf4 32. axb6 axb6 33. Ra8+ Kf7 34. Be8+ Kf6 35. Bxh5 g6 36. Bg4 Ng5 37. Rf8+
Nf7 38. c5 Kg7 39. cxd6 Ra7 40. Re8 Ra2 41. Bh3 Rh4 42. Kg1 Rxh3 0-1